ZAGREB, July 13 (Hina) - According to data released on Monday by the Croatian Board of Tourism Head Office, a total of 239,746 tourists are spending their summer holidays in Croatia, which is 13.2 percent less than in the same period
in 1998. Foreign tourists are 196,374, or 14 percent less than last year's early July, while domestic tourists are 43,372, a drop of eight percent. Istra County, on Croatia's largest peninsula, in the northern Adriatic, is registering the highest number of tourists, with a total of 95,054, a 14.3 percent drop when compared to last year. Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, also in Croatia's northern Adriatic, follows, with 61,466 tourists, 11.2 percent less than last year, while Split-Dalmatia County, the central-southern coastal area, has 32,196 tourists, 14.9 percent less than in the same period in 1998. There are 24,665 tourists, 11.1 percent less than last year, in Zadar County, a
ZAGREB, July 13 (Hina) - According to data released on Monday by the
Croatian Board of Tourism Head Office, a total of 239,746 tourists
are spending their summer holidays in Croatia, which is 13.2
percent less than in the same period in 1998.
Foreign tourists are 196,374, or 14 percent less than last year's
early July, while domestic tourists are 43,372, a drop of eight
percent.
Istra County, on Croatia's largest peninsula, in the northern
Adriatic, is registering the highest number of tourists, with a
total of 95,054, a 14.3 percent drop when compared to last year.
Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, also in Croatia's northern Adriatic,
follows, with 61,466 tourists, 11.2 percent less than last year,
while Split-Dalmatia County, the central-southern coastal area,
has 32,196 tourists, 14.9 percent less than in the same period in
1998.
There are 24,665 tourists, 11.1 percent less than last year, in
Zadar County, along the central coastline. Dubrovnik-Neretva
County, in southernmost Croatia, is accommodating 10,951 tourists,
which is 9.7 percent less than in 1998; Sibenik-Knin County,
central coastline area, 10,830, a five percent drop; and Lika-Senj
County, northern coastline area, is accommodating 4,611 tourists,
a drop of 36 percent in comparison to 1998.
The highest number of foreign tourists, 90,606, are spending their
holidays in Istra County, while domestic tourists are the most
numerous, 12,727, in Zadar County, a 0.2 percent increase in
comparison to last year.
The only increase in the number of tourists has been registered
among domestic ones, 6,777 in Split-Dalmatia County, an increase of
0.5 percent, followed by 11,715, a 0.3 percent increase, in
Primorje-Gorski Kotar County.
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